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Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapies for HCC: Current Status and Future Implications Shrestha et al. Hepatoma Res 2019;5:32 Hepatoma Research DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2019.24 Review Open Access Immune checkpoint blockade therapies for HCC: current status and future implications Ritu Shrestha1,2, Kim R. Bridle1,2, Darrell H. G. Crawford1,2, Aparna Jayachandran1,2 1The University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, Brisbane, Queensland 4120, Australia. 2Gallipoli Medical Research Institute, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4120, Australia. Correspondence to: Dr. Aparna Jayachandran, The University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, Lower Lobby Level, Administration Building, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Greenslopes, Queensland 4120, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] How to cite this article: Shrestha R, Bridle KR, Crawford DHG, Jayachandran A. Immune checkpoint blockade therapies for HCC: current status and future implications. Hepatoma Res 2019;5:32. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2394-5079.2019.24 Received: 27 Jun 2019 First Decision: 11 Jul 2019 Revised: 6 Aug 2019 Accepted: 9 Aug 2019 Published: 3 Sep 2019 Science Editors: Jia Fan, Ying-Hong Shi Copy Editor: Jia-Jia Meng Production Editor: Jing Yu Abstract Received: First Decision: Revised: Accepted: Published: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most lethal and common type of liver cancer with limited treatment options Science Editor: Copy Editor: Production Editor: Jing Yu at the advanced stage. The use of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) based immunotherapy is exponentially increasing in the treatment of patients with advanced solid tumors. The expression of immune checkpoints on tumor cells leading to lower activity of T-cells is one of the major mechanisms of immune escape. Checkpoint blockade immunotherapies with antibodies against PD-1, PD-L1 or CTLA-4 are being investigated in clinical trials in HCC patients. ICIs have improved survival in patients with inoperable advanced stage HCC where other curative treatments are not applicable. However, the response rates remain low with only a small subset of patients responding to this therapy. There is an unmet need to identify predictive markers to select those HCC patients who would benefit from ICI therapies. Importantly, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a major process driving HCC invasion and metastasis by regulating the phenotypic cellular switching from epithelial to mesenchymal state, has been implicated as a resistance mechanism associated with ICI therapies. The role of EMT as a regulator of immune checkpoint molecule in HCC is just emerging. However, the consequence of EMT as a resistance mechanism in HCC patients undergoing ICI treatments remains unexplored. In this review, we summarize the recent clinical studies with ICIs in HCC and highlight the trials underway featuring novel monotherapies and combinatorial approaches based on immune and non-immune therapies. We will discuss the ongoing efforts to discover new immune checkpoint molecules in HCC as potential drug targets. We also highlight the role of EMT in facilitating therapy resistance in HCC treated with ICIs and discuss potential strategies to circumvent resistance in ICI treated HCC patients. © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. www.hrjournal.net Page 2 of 17 Shrestha et al. Hepatoma Res 2019;5:32 I http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2394-5079.2019.24 Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma, immunotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, programmed cell death protein-1, programmed death-ligand 1, resistance INTRODUCTION Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most frequent type of primary liver cancer and is associated with a high mortality rate[1]. The incidence of HCC is increasing annually by 3%-9% worldwide and the number of new cases and the number of deaths are almost in equal proportions[2]. Patients diagnosed with early stage HCC, have a better prognosis than advanced stage HCC patients with unresectable tumors[3]. Surgical resection and liver transplantation, the curative treatment approaches for early stage HCC provides 5-year survival rate of greater than 70%[4,5]. Loco-regional therapies such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA), thermal and non-thermal ablation and transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) are also available as alternative treatment options for unresectable early stage HCCs[6-8]. However, the multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Sorafenib and Lenvatinib are the only first-line treatment available for the inoperable advanced stages of HCC[9]. As the survival benefit with Sorafenib is limited to only 3 months[10], several clinical trials have examined the suitability of new drugs for the treatment of patients with advanced stage HCC[11]. TKIs such as Regorafenib, Ramucirab, and Cabozanitib have been recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as second-line treatment alternatives for HCC patients previously treated with Sorafenib[12-15]. In addition, a combination therapy of TACE plus Sorafenib from the TCTICS trial also reported improved progression-free survival[11]. However, the limited survival benefit and associated toxicity with TKIs suggests an urgent need for better and efficacious treatment approaches for advanced stage HCC. Immunotherapy has emerged as a potential alternative in the treatment of cancers following the clinical success of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). ICIs target the negative immune regulatory pathways such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and the programmed cell death protein-1/ programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) which inhibit T-cell immune response. ICI treatments have demonstrated dramatic anti-tumor clinical effects in several malignancies including melanoma, lung cancer and renal cell carcinoma[16-19]. Immunotherapeutic approaches based on ICIs have substantially enhanced disease-free survival in HCC patients resulting in the approval of anti PD-1 monoclonal antibodies, Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab, as second-line treatment options for advanced HCC[20-22]. Notably, Nivolumab increases survival in HCC patients to 17 months, far exceeding the 3 months extension in survival offered by Sorafenib[20]. In this review, we will highlight the clinical trials that address the utility of ICIs as therapeutic tools in the management of HCC. We will focus on ICIs as monotherapies and combination therapy regimen for HCC patients. Although ICIs have proven to be effective, therapeutic resistance occurs in the majority of patients, leading to tumor progression. We explore EMT process as a main resistance mechanism to immune checkpoint blockade therapy and review studies that link EMT to immune checkpoint regulation. IMMUNOTHERAPY BASED ON IMMUNE CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE Immune equilibrium is vital for preventing uncontrolled immune responses leading to severe inflammatory conditions or autoimmune disorders[23,24]. The immune equilibrium is maintained by balance between co- inhibitory and co-stimulatory signals that regulate T-cell activation[23-25]. T-cells are activated when specific antigens are recognized by T-cell receptors, whereas, the immune checkpoints provide an inhibitory effect on the activation of T-cells[23,24]. Immune checkpoint molecules are thus responsible for self-tolerance and Shrestha et al. Hepatoma Res 2019;5:32 I http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2394-5079.2019.24 Page 3 of 17 prevent immune overstimulation in normal conditions[23,24]. However, the cancer cells hijack these immune checkpoint molecules to bypass T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity resulting in tumor immune evasion[26]. ICIs are the class of immunotherapeutic drugs including monoclonal antibodies against immune checkpoint molecules that stops the inhibitory effects of immune checkpoint molecules on T-cells resulting in the restoration of immune-mediated antitumor activity[16,27]. The first ICI drug approved by FDA for cancer immunotherapy was Ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4) for treatment of advanced melanoma[26]. The PD-1/PD-L1 pathway along with CTLA-4 are the most studied and targeted molecules in cancer immunotherapeutic research and clinical trials[28]. Several other immune checkpoint molecules have also been assessed as potential targets such as TIM-3, BTLA, VISTA, LAG-3, VTCN1, CD73, B7-H3 and OX40[23,25]. ICIs have shown clinical benefits in several other cancers such as lung cancer and renal cell carcinoma following its approval in melanoma[16-19]. FEASIBILITY OF IMMUNE CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE IN HCC Immune checkpoint blockade therapy can be exploited as an alternative treatment approach in HCC similar to other cancers, as liver possess a unique immunobiology[29]. The tumor microenvironment (TME) in HCC is known to play a vital role in immune activation or suppression contributing to either tumor eradication or tumor progression[6,30]. The strong intrinsic immune suppressive microenvironment of the liver results in intrahepatic tolerogenicity[6,31]. Some of the key players contributing to immunological tolerance in liver are liver sinusoidal endothelial cells, Kupffer cells and hepatic dendritic cells[6]. This immune suppressive microenvironment is more evident during formation
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